In addition to me, I created a parking DNS to redirect the DNS from 1 hosting provider to other without change the domain contract.

I had an issue when uploading the SQL database because it was around 100MB and the time response were timed out. You just need to deselect “Allow the interruption of an import in case the script detects it is close to the PHP timeout limit”.

Once you access to the store admin, you have to review the configuration at least of:

I am trying to configure a multistore on Prestashop 1.6.0.8. I create the new environment, I configure the virtual address and I can hide modules for this specific store. I can also create categories and products.

My issue: I cannot visualize the store, it only shows the top layer. There is not “body” 🙁

I go to module > positions, and all modules are there on each right position.

I enter on the “Run Live Edit” of the theme and it only shows the logo and an 404 error.

any idea about what I should review?

Solution:

Follow the user support help document.

Categories: check at least a couple of them from the root shop.

Import all modules (you can disable them later).

Select the right theme (in my case this was important thing I was doing wrongly).

I do not you, but I have still not found a clear standard way to meaure the E2E time response of a web hosting provider for a prestashop store. I know my shared hosting has a slow First Time response, but where to go?

On WordPress someone created a plugin to measure the CPU speed, the network transfer and database queries per second. The way to compare with others is not accurate, but it’s better than nothing.

When you are using a shared server, the CPU, the number of neighbors and many other aspects are key to understand the time response, but I want to be able to compare apples with apples, and avoid every single provider to tell me why their hosting is faster than others.

Other aspect relevant for me, is that I want speed on Prestashop configuration, I don’t care about WordPress or joomla or other environments.

So, I’m looking for the Kms/h refference, something like “Bogus PrestaShop Instructions per Second” (BogoPips) that enable the community to compare apples with apples.

The cache mechanism from Prestashop is a different thing from the CDN. To avoid confusion, I have activated a CDN and this works fine delivering the static content of the store (images, js, css, etc).

The issue is the internal cache system from Prestashop.

I though that the use of this cache was something good, it should be beneficial, isn’t it? In my case, it is not the case.

This cache system uses a lot of resources (mainly CPU) to generate and update the cache. When you disable it, every single request is done through the PHP web server and the database, but the CPU and memory used is less in the majority of the scenarios than having the cache activated.

Other important thing is to disable the modules that you really do not use. I read that in a blog and I thought “this is so basic suggestion!!” but 5 minutes later I had disabled 6 modules.

This is being a hard job to enable and disable modules, test the environment and track the time response, but at this stage I have not other option 🙁

I have found on Prestashop 1.5.6 there is a new storage system. To enable the move of images to this new system you have to:

1.- Edit your config/settings.inc.php file and set shop creation date “in the past” earlier than 2013-03-26. Why? The stores more recent to this date will already use the new storage system, so no move is required. The situation is weird when you have installed an old version of Prestashop after that date.